<p>There are numbers floating around on this board. With permission to round slightly (because my memory is fuzzy), about 60% of overseas medical students pass the USMLE. About 50% of them - and I suspect that’s 50% of the 60%, for 30% overall - ever match into residencies.</p>
<p>Now consider that these numbers are for all overseas schools, meaning that high-quality schools in England, Paris, Rome, etc. are bringing these averages up.</p>
<p>And if you look at their match lists - even for the “best” ones, like Grenada, etc. - they’re indicative of match lists with very few options. Their specialty lists are almost entirely composed of fields that US medical students tend to underfill - in other words, you only get the spots that nobody else wants. Unless you’re that lucky 1 in 1000, forget about surgery, cardiology, radiology, anesthesia, neurology, opthalmology, etc.</p>
<p>So if you want to take your chances at paying $350K, spending six years of your life, and only having a 25% chance of ever becoming a doctor with no backup plan (since you don’t get a BS/BA) and a best case scenario that has you forever at the bottom of selection pools… that’s a decision you’ll have to make for yourself.</p>
<p>The good news is that, if you’re in that lucky 25%, you’ll be 27 instead of 29 when you’re done with your residency.</p>
<p>PS: The programs I’ve seen are all at least 50% more expensive than US Medical schools. If this is true generally, then the two years of undergrad tuition you save will get eaten up very early on. By these calculations, $360K is tuition alone, living expenses not included. By comparison, four years of undergrad ($30K) and four years of medical school ($40K) add up to the same amount if you’re going to expensive privates, get no financial aid, and avoid state schools.</p>